Quantum versus classical dynamics in the optical centrifuge

Tsafrir Armon and Lazar Friedland
Phys. Rev. A 96, 033411 – Published 18 September 2017
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Abstract

The interplay between classical and quantum-mechanical evolution in the optical centrifuge (OC) is discussed. The analysis is based on the quantum-mechanical formalism starting from either the ground state or a thermal ensemble. Two resonant mechanisms are identified, i.e., the classical autoresonance and the quantum-mechanical ladder climbing, yielding different dynamics and rotational excitation efficiencies. The rotating-wave approximation is used to analyze the two resonant regimes in the associated dimensionless two-parameter space and calculate the OC excitation efficiency. The results show good agreement between numerical simulations and theory and are relevant to existing experimental setups.

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  • Received 10 July 2017
  • Revised 7 August 2017
  • Corrected 12 February 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.033411

©2017 American Physical Society

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Atomic, Molecular & Optical

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12 February 2018

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Tsafrir Armon and Lazar Friedland*

  • Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

  • *lazar@mail.huji.ac.il

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Vol. 96, Iss. 3 — September 2017

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